Estimating Benefits from Investing in Secure Software Development

Abstract

This article discusses the costs and benefits of incorporating security in software development and presents formulas for calculating security costs and security benefits.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2007
Accession Number
AD1171198

Entities

People

  • Ashish Arora
  • Rahaul Telang
  • Steven Frank

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Commerce
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Costs
  • Cyberattacks
  • Cybersecurity
  • Debugging
  • Department Of Defense
  • Economics
  • Information Security
  • Investments
  • Law
  • Money
  • Risk
  • Security
  • Software Development
  • Software Testing
  • Vulnerability

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Software Engineering.
  • Strategic Security Studies